The vice-chancellor of one of Australia's elite research universities has criticised what he sees as the spread of funding around "average" institutions to "make people feel good about themselves"....
Millions of euros on offer to speed up commercialisation of transport technologies, writes Zoe Corbyn
BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATIONThe Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced 104 grants of $100,000 (£64,000) each in the first round of its Grand Challenges Explorations scheme. They have...
Durham's Sri Lankan project links academics and students, writes Chloe Stothart
Anneliese Mackintosh is one of the postgraduates at Glasgow who produce an online journal to boost their skills
Jo Carby-Hall, a professor in the politics department at the University of Hull, has been awarded a Polish state honour for his report, "The Treatment of Polish and Other A8 Economic Migrants in the...
Maria Carnesky, a creative and performing arts fellow at the National Fairground Archive at the University of Sheffield, performs as part of the university's Admission All Classes project. Led by...
Three years to the day after a fire destroyed a University of Southampton research facility, a new building has opened in its place. The £55 million Mountbatten Building on the Highfield Campus is a...
A social and cultural history research centre is being relaunched with the aim of becoming one of the UK's most dynamic bases for historical research. In 1995, the historian Raphael Samuel created a...
The television comedy Little Britain largely panders to prejudice and hatred, according to a new academic study. Research from the London School of Economics argues that the majority of characters in...
The Princess Royal has officially opened a new clinical research facility at St Thomas' Hospital. Researchers at King's College London and clinical staff at the hospital will undertake multi-...
The 12th Duke of Devonshire, Peregrine Cavendish, has been installed as chancellor of the University of Derby. Almost 400 guests attended the event marking the appointment, including honorary...
Charity Commonwheels has teamed up with Bucks New University to provide an on-campus green car club for employees and students. The club aims to reduce single-occupancy car journeys to and from the...
Engineering academics have launched a three-year initiative to persuade more Welsh students to study science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects. Swansea University engineers...
India's first mission to the Moon will provide data for two Open University researchers. Mahesh Anand and David Rothery, of the Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research, are co-...